Category: IT

I just set up MythTV to stream video from the desktop to my laptop. I’ve had to muck about with the playback resolution because the poor little laptop just doesn’t have the hamsters to playback HDTV at full resolution. It’s also running over 100MiB wired ethernet, not GigE. It’s quite… Read More

Bill Moore came to visit us today. Bill works with Jeff Bonwick on the Solaris kernel, specifically on ZFS, the new uber-filesystem that runs on Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. It’s still a beta product, really, but it works quite nicely as is. There are all sorts of great features in… Read More

I’ve been having a second go at installing Quickbooks today. I attempted it last weekend but it failed to install correctly. It appears the key I used for the upgrade from Quickbooks 2002 to 2004 doesn’t actually work. It installed fine, but wouldn’t run. I’ve since verified the correct key… Read More

I’ve recently embarked on a major rebuild of my desktop system from a Debian sid based testing/unstable distro for amd64 to an Ubuntu Breezy Badger install for amd64. The Ubuntu bit was relatively painless, and happily VMWare Workstation 5.5 now supports amd64, so it works nicely. Unfortunately, MythTV isn’t packaged… Read More

Today I explored some of the extra items to the left of the rhythmbox GUI. I use it because it supports all my tunes and I can create playlists out of fairly complex search criteria. It also automatically detects new songs as I rip them into the directories I’ve told… Read More

I love the internet. I also love Debian. I am starting to develop unhealthy emotions towards OpenOffice. I am definitely a geek. Perhaps it’s the lack of sleep talking, or maybe the caffeine, but the internet has once again validated all that is awesome about people being able to share… Read More